How Nigerian soldiers killed 150 IPOB agitators
About 150 agitators for the Republic of
Biafra have been killed by Nigerian security
operatives, especially the Nigerian army.
This much was contained in a new report by
Amnesty International (AI), detailing how the
pro-Biafrans met their death through
extrajudicial killings and torture by the
security forces.
Over 150 Biafrans were reportedly killed
between August 2015 and August 2016
according to the report titled: “Bullets Were
Raining Everywhere” and obtained by
Premium Times.
This stats was said to have depended on an
analysis of 87 videos, 122 photographs and
146 eye witness testimonies which showed
the soldiers were firing live ammunition to
disperse some of the agitators without a prior
warning.
For instance, no fewer than 60 defenceless
protesters of the Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB) were killed within two days ahead of
the May 30 Biafra Remembrance Day
celebration.
IPOB and MASSOB laid curses on Nigeria at
her independence
This also confirmed Premium Times’s earlier
report about the massive clampdown and
inexplicable killings of IPOB members by
soldiers, police officers and operatives of the
State Security Services (SSS).
In a statement issued alongside the report, AI
wrote: “On Remembrance Day itself, the
security forces shot people in several
locations. Amnesty International has not
been able to verify the exact number of
extrajudicial executions, but estimates that at
least 60 people were killed and 70 injured in
these two days. The real number is likely to
be higher.”
A woman simply identified as Ngozi, during
an interview with AI, recounted some of the
incidents that occurred during the
Remembrance Day celebration.
The 28-year-old wife of a late IPOB protester
explained to the Amnesty that her hubby had
informed her that day shortly after leaving for
work that he had been shot in the abdomen
by the soldiers but that he was in a military
vehicle with six other members (four already
dead).
She added: “He started whispering and said
they just stopped [the vehicle]. He was
scared they would kill the remaining three of
them that were alive… He paused and told
me they were coming closer. I heard
gunshots and I did not hear a word from him
after that.”
It was not until the next day that the woman
found her husband’s corpse in a mortuary
not far from their place of residence. And the
mortuary attendant explained how the man
had been brought (with three gunshot injuries
– one in the abdomen and two on the chest)
alongside six others.
Another witness, identified as Chukwuemeka
(pseudonym) explained how he was shot and
taken to the barracks with other corpses.
“They dumped us on the ground beside a pit.
There were two soldiers beside the pit. The
pit was very big and so many dead people
were inside the pit. I cannot estimate the
number of people in the grave. … We were
dumped on the ground,” the 25-year-old
trader said.
The BBC also quotes Makmid Kamara,
Amnesty’s interim director for Nigeria, as
saying: “This reckless and trigger-happy
approach to crowd control has caused at
least 150 deaths, and we fear the actual total
might be far higher.”
It also reported that a 26-year-old man was
reportedly shot in Nkpor area of Anambra
state but did not die. And when some
soldiers found him again, they poured acid on
him in a bid to have him die slowly.
In a statement by Colonel Sani Kukasheka
Usman who is the spokesperson of the army,
he reacted to a planned release of Amnesty
International that reportedly accused the
army of carry out extra-judicial killing of
member of the separatist groups.
Usman however accused the international
group of peddling lies and said it was an
attempt to tarnish the image of the army.
Biafra have been killed by Nigerian security
operatives, especially the Nigerian army.
This much was contained in a new report by
Amnesty International (AI), detailing how the
pro-Biafrans met their death through
extrajudicial killings and torture by the
security forces.
Over 150 Biafrans were reportedly killed
according to the report titled: “Bullets Were
Raining Everywhere” and obtained by
Premium Times.
This stats was said to have depended on an
analysis of 87 videos, 122 photographs and
146 eye witness testimonies which showed
the soldiers were firing live ammunition to
disperse some of the agitators without a prior
warning.
For instance, no fewer than 60 defenceless
protesters of the Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB) were killed within two days ahead of
the May 30 Biafra Remembrance Day
celebration.
IPOB and MASSOB laid curses on Nigeria at
her independence
This also confirmed Premium Times’s earlier
report about the massive clampdown and
inexplicable killings of IPOB members by
soldiers, police officers and operatives of the
State Security Services (SSS).
In a statement issued alongside the report, AI
wrote: “On Remembrance Day itself, the
security forces shot people in several
locations. Amnesty International has not
been able to verify the exact number of
extrajudicial executions, but estimates that at
least 60 people were killed and 70 injured in
these two days. The real number is likely to
be higher.”
A woman simply identified as Ngozi, during
an interview with AI, recounted some of the
incidents that occurred during the
Remembrance Day celebration.
The 28-year-old wife of a late IPOB protester
explained to the Amnesty that her hubby had
informed her that day shortly after leaving for
work that he had been shot in the abdomen
by the soldiers but that he was in a military
vehicle with six other members (four already
dead).
She added: “He started whispering and said
they just stopped [the vehicle]. He was
scared they would kill the remaining three of
them that were alive… He paused and told
me they were coming closer. I heard
gunshots and I did not hear a word from him
after that.”
It was not until the next day that the woman
found her husband’s corpse in a mortuary
not far from their place of residence. And the
mortuary attendant explained how the man
had been brought (with three gunshot injuries
– one in the abdomen and two on the chest)
alongside six others.
Another witness, identified as Chukwuemeka
(pseudonym) explained how he was shot and
taken to the barracks with other corpses.
“They dumped us on the ground beside a pit.
There were two soldiers beside the pit. The
pit was very big and so many dead people
were inside the pit. I cannot estimate the
number of people in the grave. … We were
dumped on the ground,” the 25-year-old
trader said.
The BBC also quotes Makmid Kamara,
Amnesty’s interim director for Nigeria, as
saying: “This reckless and trigger-happy
approach to crowd control has caused at
least 150 deaths, and we fear the actual total
might be far higher.”
It also reported that a 26-year-old man was
reportedly shot in Nkpor area of Anambra
state but did not die. And when some
soldiers found him again, they poured acid on
him in a bid to have him die slowly.
In a statement by Colonel Sani Kukasheka
Usman who is the spokesperson of the army,
he reacted to a planned release of Amnesty
International that reportedly accused the
army of carry out extra-judicial killing of
member of the separatist groups.
Usman however accused the international
group of peddling lies and said it was an
attempt to tarnish the image of the army.
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